I have a new toy! A pressure cooker/slow cooker thing! And I’m practising with it at the moment! We’ve had two really nice meals so far, a beef casserole & chicken and chorizo risotto! Both really easy to do, and both very tasty.

This weeks recipe selection was pulled pork! And I have been so very excited about it! All week! This is how sad I am!

So, in it went! Cooker set up as per instructions, and left to cook for the stated hour!

To go with this, we had coleslaw, flat breads, and homemade paprika wedges.

Everything was ready – just had to shred the pork, mix it with the BBQ sauce, and dish up!

Opened the cooker and there was this uncooked, fatty, slimy, piece of muck! Competely inedible!

Yesterday I had an appointment with a neurologist to see about the problems I’ve been having with my leg!

After sticking a few pins in my thigh and not being able to feel it – I could on the other thigh – he diagnosed Meralgia Paresthetica, which is compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve – apparently!

He thinks it should fix quite easily, he has a few things he can do – the first one was a nerve block injection, which I had yesterday, then it will be medication, and finally a small op to remove the nerve.

Pretty much as soon as he gave me the injection, it started to feel better, not perfect, but certainly an improvement so I will take that.

When I got home – being a geek – I looked it up! Other suggestions included wearing looser clothing, losing weight, and certain strengthening exercises.

So that’s my motivation! If losing weight and exercising will help reduce the pain in my leg, I will do it. I actually enjoy exercising, just got myself in to a really bad rut at the moment, and hoping this is the kick start I need to get me back into a routine.
I got up this morning, did my workout, had breakfast, and then went for a walk. All a good start. And I’m determined to keep it up! I had also said to hubby that I’d noticed my leg had got worse since I’ve been back to work and not exercising – so I know it will help.

And I had my first weigh-in after starting my 21 day of not eating rubbish – and I’d lost 4lb. YaY me!

This is the frame of mind I need to keep! Positive, active, healthy! It’s all going to help!
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I’m in a proper strop with myself this weekend. I’m not used to not being able to do everything and I’m struggling just now.
Before I went back to work, I’d got in to a nice routine – getting up early, doing some exercise, either strength training or power walking, doing a bit of housework, watching some quizzes on TV, and cooking healthy meals, and I felt good, and was getting stronger by the day, sleeping properly and generally happy.
But being back at work has completely floored me. I’m shattered, especially now I’ve finished the phased return and am back full time. I’m not doing any exercise, and I’m eating crap, and feel crap.
Now I do know it’s going to get better, but it is so frustrating, and I’m feeling really fed up about it all.
But time to think positively! I know I’m not ready to run yet, but the strength training was really helping – I’ve noticed my leg is a lot more painful since I’ve stopped, so I need to get back to doing that regularly.

And I need to get back to eating healthily – so I’m going for a kick start! This is my next three weeks.

No sweets

No cake

No chips

No white bread

No fast food

No chocolate

No ice cream

No crisps

I’ve made a nice big salad for lunch tomorrow, I have brown bread ready for my breakfast, and I have enough quick, healthy meals I can fall back on to get me through the next week. They need to be quick so that I can do my exercises when I get in from work, and still eat before it gets too late.
This is the plan anyway………
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Up until last October, I was quite normal! I am married, we have one son, almost 2o years old. I have a full time job which I love. I try and eat healthy most of the time & I loved to – that was my thing! I’d tried lots of other different things, but soon became bored – running is the only thing I’ve stuck with for so long (about 11 years now) .

Then bang! My whole life was turned upside down! I was admitted to hospital with water retention- I’d put on 20lb of fluid over the weekend, and figured I should get it checked out! I was kept in to have a kidney biopsy to find out what was going wrong! This all went to plan, but afterwards it wouldn’t stop bleeding! Three ops, and four days later, I had one kidney less, and the other one wasn’t working anymore & I was put on dialysis. Had a couple of blood transfusions as I lost so much blood, and hubby was told a couple of times I wasn’t going to make it.

9 weeks later, I’d had numerous infections, an allergic reaction to antibiotics which resulted in me getting Steven Johnsons syndrome (a life threatening skin condition which resulted in me shedding my skin), pneumonia, c-dif, I’d been in ICT, HDU, and several other wards in between. I’d lost 2 stone in weight (as well as the 20lb fluid) , and lots of muscle wastage, could barely walk with out sticks, and I got to go home the day before Christmas Eve!

The last few months have been spent building my strength back up, and try to get back to normal. I have now been diagnosed with Lupus, and am constantly at the hospital seeing one consultant or the other – they are treating me with kid gloves as I went through so much while in hospital.

And now I’m starting back to work, and trying to run again.

This blog will be my ramblings – happy and sad, my feelings and thoughts.

I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I’m going to enjoy writing them.

PS I’m not a writer, I’m not particularly witty or entertaining- and this could end up very boring – I’m just me 😊
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